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/ 11 November 2004
Murderers, thieves and Taliban militants line the gloomy corridors of Kandahar prison, a foul-smelling jail in southern Afghanistan’s main city. But not every inmate is guilty. Muhammad and Sadiqa, a pair of star-crossed teenagers, are locked into grubby cells in separate wings of the prison. Their crime was to fall in love.
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/ 11 November 2004
A 62-year-old Sunninghill man — accused of sodomising and filming three Diepsloot boys — was arrested on Wednesday evening in a police trap, detectives said on Thursday. Pretoria police spokesperson Captain Piletji Sebola said the man was arrested on the old Muldersdrift Road by members of the family violence and sexual offences unit at 6.45pm.
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/ 11 November 2004
At least 10 people were killed, many burnt to death in their cars, when a car bomb exploded in the middle of a traffic jam at the crossroads of a shopping street in Baghdad on Thursday. Flames raged around one car with four children trapped inside after the blast ripped through a line of vehicles.
Hostage killing houses found
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/ 11 November 2004
South African financial institutions are falling through the delivery gap with only one out of two customers perceiving positive value from these providers, a survey conducted by Markinor has found. The study was conducted telephonically among a random sample of 1 332 customers of financial-services companies.
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/ 11 November 2004
For the dozens of Palestinian orphans that Yasser Arafat adopted, brought up and indulged, his demise in a Paris hospital was a very personal torment, as they look back on a blissful childhood. Without ever signing official adoption papers, the veteran leader took personal charge of about 66 children, most of them left parentless after the massacres of the Palestinian camps of Tall Zaatar, and Sabra and Chatilla.
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/ 11 November 2004
A New Zealand wine company is to launch a new wine labelled Pansy which is aimed at Australia’s gay community, the company said on Thursday. Kim Crawford Wines said the Sydney gay community drinks about 4,5-million New Zealand dollars’ (,1-million) worth of wine a month.
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/ 11 November 2004
After Wednesday’s pullback from record highs, the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) remained strong at midday on Thursday, led by gains for the gold-mining sector and resources. There were also good gains for industrials. On Wednesday, the all-share and industrial indices reached record highs.
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/ 11 November 2004
With the death of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has lost his closest enemy, whom he chased, hated and finally isolated for three years in Ramallah. For Sharon, Arafat never qualified as a sufficiently credible Palestinian partner with whom he could bring a peace agreement to fruition.
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/ 11 November 2004
Seventy people were left homeless and a toddler was killed when fire spread through shacks in KwaDabeka near Pinetown on Wednesday. Sanele Mene, 13 months old, burnt to death when he wandered into his family’s shack soon after it was set alight by a toppled paraffin stove.